Pasta tubes wild outrageous Italian in origin (9)

Independent Cryptic #11900 | 23 Across | 2024-11-29
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

MANIC (wild) + OTT (abbreviation for “over the top” = outrageous) + first letter (origin) of I [talian]. Not a variety of pasta I’d heard of, but guessable; there are so many types that I’m quite prepared to believe there are some I’ve never come across. Wikipedia tells me that they’re an Italian-American thing, a bit like cannelloni; the name means “little sleeves”.

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